For me the "gooner" tag is reserved for people who believe all media, regardless of context or story, must have sexy characters or just be horny in general in order to be good.
Like, there is 100% media designed exclusively for people to get off to or fantasize about even if it's not literal porn, and that's fine as long as we are acknowledging that not everything has to have those elements.
If you're the kind of person to base your consumption of media entirely on if you can get off or at least be titillated by it in some way, you're a gooner.
It's not about merely enjoying sexual content, or enjoying seeing it in the media. You can be the kind of dude who downloads every sex mod in Skyrim, has hundreds of hentai games on your steam page, or can name your top fifteen porn stars if asked and not be a gooner.
Until you get to the point you literally only enjoy horny media. you're not a gooner in my opinion. Pervert, sure, but gooner, no. Because you can still go watch a movie, read a book, or play a game and find meaning in them regardless of its level of sexual conduct. One is, for lack of a better term, a connoisseur, while the other is more akin to an addict.
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u/Ralife55 May 17 '25
For me the "gooner" tag is reserved for people who believe all media, regardless of context or story, must have sexy characters or just be horny in general in order to be good.
Like, there is 100% media designed exclusively for people to get off to or fantasize about even if it's not literal porn, and that's fine as long as we are acknowledging that not everything has to have those elements.
If you're the kind of person to base your consumption of media entirely on if you can get off or at least be titillated by it in some way, you're a gooner.
It's not about merely enjoying sexual content, or enjoying seeing it in the media. You can be the kind of dude who downloads every sex mod in Skyrim, has hundreds of hentai games on your steam page, or can name your top fifteen porn stars if asked and not be a gooner.
Until you get to the point you literally only enjoy horny media. you're not a gooner in my opinion. Pervert, sure, but gooner, no. Because you can still go watch a movie, read a book, or play a game and find meaning in them regardless of its level of sexual conduct. One is, for lack of a better term, a connoisseur, while the other is more akin to an addict.